About
Before AI entered the conversation, I was in the trenches — Linux, Chef, Ansible, Grafana, and on-call at places like Facebook Reality Labs and Rackspace. 0+ years of keeping things running teaches you something: read the system before you touch it.
That experience — knowing how things break, how they come back, and how to talk across team lines — is what everything else I do is built on.
AI changed what's possible for one person working alone. With Claude as a real collaborator — not a fancy autocomplete — I've shipped things that used to need a full team: a manuscript editor that tracks continuity across chapters, a Reddit thread visualizer with sentiment coloring, a form system with AI built into the processing.
This isn't about letting AI think for me. It's about knowing enough to ask the right question, then using AI to get to the answer before the window closes.
How I Work
Every problem is part of something bigger. Before I write a line of code, I map what I'm working with — data flows, failure modes, what users actually need, where it goes wrong. Fifteen years of incident response wired that into me.
Claude isn't a shortcut — it's who I think with. Architecture tradeoffs, subtle bugs, test coverage gaps, design iterations — I move through all of it faster than I ever could solo.
Old sysadmin habits die hard. I care about what happens after you ship — docs people actually read, monitoring that catches issues before the tickets come in, code someone else can pick up on a bad day.
Projects
A developmental editor for self-published authors. Reads manuscripts chapter by chapter, builds a story bible from the opening pages, and catches continuity errors the way a real editor would — by remembering everything it's already read. Built on Claude.
View on GitHubTurns Reddit threads into interactive graphs. Each node is sized by upvotes and colored by sentiment — positive, negative, neutral. Pan, zoom, filter by depth and score. You can actually see how a conversation spreads.
View on GitHubAn intake form that uses AI to cut down on manual entry — reads what was submitted, fills in what it can, flags what needs a human. Built in Next.js and TypeScript, embeds anywhere. Still under active development.
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Contact
Open to interesting problems.
